Gua Bao appears as a signature dish in 1 Taiwan cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Gua bao · Taipei
Gua bao is the Taiwanese hamburger: a steamed lotus-leaf-shaped bun stuffed with five-spice braised pork belly, pickled mustard greens, peanut powder and coriander.
Gua bao is a Hokkien-Taiwanese dish brought from Fujian in the 1700s, traditionally eaten as a snack at weddings and wei ya (year-end company dinners). The shape resembles a tiger's mouth, which is why it's sometimes called 'tiger bites pig'. Lan Jia near Gongguan MRT in Taipei has been the canonical version since 1985, NT$60 a bun. The dish has been internationalised over the past decade as a popular street-food item from London to New York.
Where to eat in Taipei:
- Lan Jia Gua Bao
- Shijia Baobao
- Shilin Night Market